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4 a.m. Wake up
4:20 a.m. Matins & Lauds - Each day begins with prayers and the singing of psalms.
6 a.m. Angelus/Low Mass
6:30 a.m. Contemplative prayer
7:30 a.m. Prime (prayers offered in first hour of daylight)
7:45 a.m. Breakfast
8 a.m. Spiritual reading
8:45 a.m. Rosary
9:15 a.m. Chores
10 a.m. Terce (midmorning prayer)
10:15 a.m. Conventual High Mass
11:45 a.m. Sext (the fourth of seven canonical hours observed with prayer)
12 p.m. Angelus/dinner
1 p.m. Recreation - Silence is lifted, and the monks are free to, for example, talk, toss a football or play in the snow.
1:45 p.m. None (afternoon prayer)
2 p.m. Manual work
3 p.m. Hour of Mercy - The monks mark the time when Jesus died with prayers and penance so souls can be saved and the world converted.
6 p.m. Vespers (evening prayer)
6:30 p.m. Contemplative prayer
7:30 p.m. Angelus/Collation - a bell announces this thrice-daily prayer (Angelus) to honor the Incarnation, when the human and the divine were joined in Christ. During meals - collation is the last of the day - one monk offers religious readings while the others eat in silence.
8:15 p.m. Compline (night prayer)
8:45 p.m. Solitude
9:30 p.m. Retire